[Scoutmaster]

Snake meat would indeed be tough due the configuration of the musculature necessary for each rib to move each belly scale which is a snake's form of locomotion.

Makes perfect sense in theory, but there must be exceptions - perhaps based on the method of cooking. I've had fried rattlesnake on quite a few occasions and never considered it to be tough.

[Salamander]

I've had fried rattlesnake

[tet68]

I’ve had rattler just broiled by being laid on rocks
next to the fire, it tasted like chicken, white meat.

Of course we WERE hungry.